A Day at the Beach

We had a very nice break at the beach last weekend. It was much needed and we had a great time! Oh the weather was just perfect, around 68 degrees, no wind, just perfect. The water was still pretty cold but we just lay on the beach and enjoyed the Sun. Matt was pretty happy, too. He was still afraid of waves hitting his little toes but still loved being out with us. We put a baby sunblock all over him, but he still managed to get a nice tan. So he's a little brown now - really cute still. Sean and I tried to get a tan, but wasn't very successful for us. I guess three hours of being out on the beach on a sunny day wasn't enough for us to get a little darker, ha ha. But seriously, we loved every minute of being out in the Sun. After our little fun at the beach, Sean said that he had been really stressed out lately with his heavy workload and all the things that have been going on, but this little break helped him release the stress and put him in a much better mood. I felt the same way.

This was taken on our way to Pismo Beach... He did very well during the 6 hour trip! He's a great traveler, not to mention he traveled all the way to South Korea once!!

At the beach

Me and Matt

Another one

Sean and Matt

Matt was talking to Ed and Ashley on the cheerio bag phone

This is one of my favorites - I love how both of my boys are smiling.

Matt and I...

He was showing his sunblock..

Bonfire!

We had a little bonfire on Sunday after church. It was really fun and relaxing. I love bonfires! We had teriyaki marinated steak cubes, shrimp, and smores of course! They were delicious! Sean makes the best teriyaki sauce ever!! The meat tasted fantastic. Matt was up for a while but then got tired and cranky. So I fed him and he fell asleep.

The BEACH!

In front of a little, tiny cave at the beach.

Matt stared at the waves for a long time. He was amazed!

Daddy and Matty at the beach together.

I love the beach! It calms me down when I see the blue ocean without end.

There were lots of small caves by the beach. A lot of people were going into them and we did too thinking that we'd see some amazing caves. They were disappointing of course, but not too bad.

There were about 500 steps down to the beach. Going down wasn't really the problem, it was going up that caused us short breathed! Matt seemed to be having a hard time as well, haha.


Look at Sean's mouth. He looks like he's seen something horrible or something. Was it me that scared him?

Matt had never been to the beach before (well, we went by the beach once before to take some family photos, but we never walked along the beach with Matt), so we took him to the beach. I think he was shocked to see such a giant bathtub. He kept staring at the beach. When the waves came hit our feet, I tried to lower Matt's body so that he could feel the water on his feet but he got scared and he screamed a little bit. So we knew that he wasn't ready for the ocean water yet. We walked along the beach on barefoot and the next day, our legs were so sore!! Well, never walk on the sand on barefoot if you don't like the sore feeling. Sean and I love to walk on the sand though so the soreness didn't really bother us. We saw some little kids who were playing in the water with their parents, some were butt naked -which was rather a disturbing image-, some were wearing bikinis -why would you ever dress your babies in bikinis anyway?- but most of them seemed to be having fun. We can't wait until Matt is a little older so we can all have fun in the water someday. (Well, actually, I could wait a little longer until Matt can walk and all that.. although chasing after him could be a good exercise.)

Our visit to Solvang

We went to Solvang, CA while we were visiting Sean's parents. Solvang is a Danish town and has amazing Danish pastries! All the little stores in the town are so much fun. My favorite thing about Solvang though is all the European looking buildings. I felt like I was in a whole different world.

I think Matt was getting tired of driving. He felt asleep about a minute after I took this picture.

It looks like Matt was praying again. We went to this little Danish bakery place in Solvang. We had almond buttercream, raspberry, custard pastries and they were so so yummy!

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE!!

I found the sign in Placerville formally known as Hangtown. What can I say, babies "are" born to breastfeed!

We stopped in Placerville so that I could feed Matt. Matt wasn't too hungry though since he had eaten just before we left for Tahoe. South Lake Tahoe is only about an hour and a half drive from Roseville.

Matt just chilled for a little bit while Sean and I were getting settled in Sean's mom's little cabin up in Tahoe.

TAHOE!!!

Sean and I decided to spend the weekend at the cabin that Sean's mom and aunt own up at South Lake Tahoe. I had never been there before so I was really excited! When we got to the cabin, we walked around the area for a while. It was good to be out in the nature. Matt loves being out in the nature. He couldn't stop smiling which is great because we got some great pictures of him. These are some photos from around the cabin.


Matt was just staring at the keys and laughing. He loves the jiggling sound that the keys make.


Sean was just enjoying the view out the window.

I thought it was cute how both Sean and Matt were holding on to that bar by the stream. Like father like son! :)


Oh and don't you just LOVE Matt's white hat?? He looks so cute in it!




This cabin is owned by Sean's mom and her sister (Bunton and McKinty) They inherited the cabin from their parents.

Matt was getting ready to go to Echo Lake!

ECHO LAKE!!

We went to Echo Lake a little later in the evening so it was getting dark when we got there. We just wanted to see the lake for a little while. Matt sure looks like he's ready to go see the lake in this picture though.

THE NEXT MORNING: We slept in until like 9. I made breakfast sandwich for me and Sean and it was fabulous. There are many interesting old pictures on the wall in the cabin so I decided to take some pictures of them. Afterwards, Sean and I went to a little stream by the cabin. It was pretty. Then we cooked delicious hamburgers on our little grill. mmmmm.... it was sooo yummy. Then we headed out to Echo Lake where we hiked for about two hours. The lake is amazingly beautiful. The hike was not too bad. Sean carried Matt in our baby bjorn and I carried our new camelbak. We had so much fun!

Matt likes to sit up now although he's not perfect at it yet.